History Music / PinkFloyd

** The band as a whole can be this to ProgressiveRock, as [[UnbuiltTrope many of the tropes associated with that genre are rare or missing]] from Pink Floyd's music. Use of UncommonTime is rare; David Gilmour's solos are slow, bluesy, and firmly rooted in the classic rock sound of the time; the only ProgressiveRock trope they really play completely straight is EpicRocking.

* LongTitle: While the band has a fondness for long, unusual, and unusually long song titles ("Come In Number 51, Your Time is Up," "Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert," and "Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun" are just a very few examples), the reigning champion is "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict".

** Quite a few live performances of "Green is the Colour" would have the song fade into ''"Careful with That Axe, Eugene"'', [[SurpriseCreepy of all tracks]]. Some versions of "Eugene" done this way would merely be a little more menacing and not include the iconic screaming, but others very much did.

* '''Richard Wright''' - lead vocals, piano, organ, keyboards, celeste, mellotron, harpsichord, harmonium, vibraphone, xylophone, tin whistle, bongos, [=VCS3=], clavinet, bass pedals, violin, tape effects, accordion (1965-1979, 1987-1995, 2005, died 2008)

* BilingualBonus: Towards the end of "Not Now John," Waters yells: "Excuse me, where's the bar?" in [[GratuitousItalian Italian]] ("scusi, dov'é il bar?"), [[GratuitousGreek Greek]] (the badly-mangled "Se para collo pou eine toe bar?"), and [[GratuitousFrench French]] ("s'il vous plait, oú est le bar?") with increasing intensity, culminating in English with "OI, WHERE'S THE [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] BAR, JOHN?!" (Before that, one can hear a background voice going "Why don't you say that in Brit, fairy?!")

** When "Let's Roll Another One" was rewritten into "Candy and a Currant Bun", it became this, complete with lyrics like ''...please just [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] with me... [[DoubleEntendre ice cream tastes good in the afternoon]]...''

* PrecisionFStrike:
** "Not Now John" remains their definitive example with lines including "Fuck all that we gotta get on with these" and "Oi, where's the fucking bar, John?".
** "Money" has "Don't give me that do-goody-good bullshit."
** "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" has "You fucked up old hag!"
** There are only two songs with serious expletives in ''Music/TheWall'': One occurs in "Nobody Home" ("I've got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from") and the other in "The Trial" ("You little shit..." and "Go on, Judge! '''[[NoIndoorVoice Shit on 'im!]]"''')
** The demo for "The Show Must Go On" had one in there, plus a few more verses.
** "Lost for Words" from ''Music/TheDivisionBell'' has an F-bomb at the end.
** The early B-side "Candy and a Currant Bun," in which the line "Please, just fuck with me" is rumoured to have been inserted as a TakeThat at the label for censoring the original title ("Let's Roll Another One", an obvious drug reference) and lyrics ("I'm high, don't try to spoil my fun") of the song.
** ''You've Got To Be Crazy'' (an early version of ''Dogs'') features two in the song, surprisingly.
--->You gotta keep smiling, you gotta eat shit\\

** Even Syd squeezed in a couple. "Jugband Blues" has been interpreted as his way of "thanking" his bandmates for kicking him out of the group. "Vegetable Man" may have been his view on the music industry, the title of the song referring to musicians being molded into mindless hit-making machines (concluding with the [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Kurt Cobain-ish]] line [[PrecisionFStrike "He's the kind of fucker you just got to see if you can!"]]), a theme the rest of the band plus David Gilmour in tow would continue with on "Cymbaline", "Welcome to the Machine" and "Have a Cigar".

--->''But they tell me to please go [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] myself''

After Barrett's departure, Pink Floyd struggled initially, with the period between the albums ''Music/{{More}}'' and ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' (or ''Music/ObscuredByClouds'', for some fans) generally considered to be their DorkAge, and the band looks back on their albums between ''Atom'' and ''Obscured'' [[CreatorBacklash with some]] [[OldShame embarrassment]]. But, by the time of 1971's ''Music/{{Meddle}}'', they began to tone down the experimentalism and EpicRocking, refined their signature sound, and eventually hit the big time with their next album, ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon''. The lyrics became DarkerAndEdgier, mostly revolving around themes of isolation, death, insanity, and criticisms of modern society. A re-occurring theme of isolation from society also began to become more visible as Waters took more control of the band, and they began an impressive run of success with a series of complex ProgressiveRock albums.

The four-piece then went on to gain a reputation as one of the foremost British psychedelic bands, releasing two singles and the now-classic LP ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'' before Barrett’s mental state, exacerbated by heavy drug use, began to decline significantly. The band then recruited Music/DavidGilmour, a childhood friend of Barrett and Waters, into the band, eventually replacing Barrett during the making of ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets''. While Barrett's state declined to the point where he left the music industry and became a recluse, he would remain a massive influence on the band and haunt the band’s future music.

[[caption-width-right:275:Pink Floyd in January 1968, from the only known photoshoot during the five months that all five members were together. From left to right: Nick Mason, David Gilmour, Music/RogerWaters, Music/SydBarrett and Richard Wright.]]

!! [[Music/TheWall ...we]] [[BookEnds came in?]]

->''"There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark."''

Pink Floyd were a [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} British]] [[PsychedelicRock Psychedelic]] and ProgressiveRock band which formed in 1964. The initial line-up consisted of Music/SydBarrett and Rado “Bob” Klose on guitar, Music/RogerWaters on bass, Richard Wright on keyboards, and Nick Mason on drums. They recorded several songs before Klose left to focus on studies. [[note]]these songs would later be released in 2015 on the EP ''1965: Their First Recordings'' [[/note]]

!! Principal Members (Founding members in '''bold'''):

!! Studio Discography:

!! Live Discography:

!! Non-album singles:

* 1967 - "See Emily Play" [[note]]Later included on the US version of ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn''.[[/note]] / "The Scarecrow" [[note]]Otherwise available on both the UK and US versions of ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn''.[[/note]]

* 1982 - "When the Tigers Broke Free" [[note]]Originally from the film adaptation of ''The Wall'' that same year, later added to reissues of ''The Final Cut'' from 2004 onward.[[/note]] / "Bring the Boys Back Home" [[note]]Otherwise available on ''The Wall''.[[/note]]
* 2022 - "Hey, Hey, Rise Up" [[note]]Recorded using the cover of the Ukrainian patriotic song "Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow" ("Ой у лузі червона калина") by Andriy Khlyvnyuk and released to support humanitarian efforts in UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} during the UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n invasion of the country that year. [[/note]]

!! Another Trope In The Wall:

--> '''David Gilmour:''' It was a line I just couldn't reach so we dropped the tape down half a semitone.

!! [[BookEnds Isn't this]] [[Music/TheWall where...]]

''The Dark Side of The Moon'' began what most consider their golden era, and was followed by the albums ''Music/{{Wish You Were Here|1975}}'' and ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}''. By the late 1970s, Roger Waters was firmly [[IAmTheBand in full control of the band]], and was calling most of the shots on the band's direction creatively. Next came 1979’s ''Music/TheWall'', their [[TroubledProduction tribulated]] RockOpera classic. However, by that point, the band was beginning to splinter, and Richard Wright—who defined much of Pink Floyd’s sound—was fired during the making of the album.

By the early 1980s, near the end of Waters’ tenure with the band, the music became heavier, and the lyrics very personal. Next came the polarizing ''Music/TheFinalCut'' (considered, by most, a Roger Waters solo album in all but name), which would become Waters’ last with the band. In 1985, Waters declared that Pink Floyd was "a spent force" and chose to leave. As he left, he tried to dissolve the band but failed. After Waters left, and with Gilmour and Mason left standing, the band did a U-turn and returned to a more experimental (although radio-friendly) sound, with slightly LighterAndSofter lyrics, at times seeming to focus on Gilmour’s personal life, and occasionally alluding to the fallout of Waters’ departure.

''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'', (considered, by most, a David Gilmour solo album in all but name) was released in 1987, featuring Richard Wright as a session player. In 1988, the band released a live album from the resulting tour, ''The Delicate Sound of Thunder'', which would make Pink Floyd, true to their SpaceRock image, the first band in space when a Russian cosmonaut took a cassette copy aboard the space station Mir. The first album with Wright as a re-instated full band member, however, would ultimately be their last album for 20 years, 1994’s ''Music/TheDivisionBell''. Waters, for his part, went on to have a mildly successful solo career, and since the end of TheNineties has mounted several highly successful concert tours. In hindsight, Waters has since regretted what he did (though he doesn’t regret leaving) but his relationship with Gilmour remains strained.

In November 2014, Gilmour and Mason unexpectedly released a new Pink Floyd album, ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'', assembled from some new instrumental material, but made primarily from rehearsals and jamming recorded during the sessions for ''Music/TheDivisionBell''. This turned out to be just a one-off, the album put out without any intention of a tour or any follow-up projects, with Gilmour and Mason in the press saying it was effectively both a tribute to Wright and at the same time the band’s swansong. In 2018, Mason launched the group Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, which performs Pink Floyd's pre-''Dark Side of the Moon'' material, and has received considerable fan and critical acclaim. Gilmour and Waters both continue to tour and record as solo artists.

As to the band’s place in rock history, Pink Floyd’s influence extends across hard rock, ElectronicMusic, {{Ambient}} and AlternativeRock, as well as the elaborate stage shows that popular music artists of all genres routinely take on the road. David Gilmour is widely considered one of the best rock guitarists ever, for his melodic solos and mastery of tone and vibrato, as well for his voice, used often in contrast to Waters' vocals, or complement his guitar parts. Syd Barrett, despite his short and troubled tenure in the band, is still renowned for the highly experimental music he created, and his lyrics as well are held in high regard. Roger Waters' lyrics are well-known for their high quotient of satirical humour and general quotability, as are his strong bass-lines and his highly dramatic vocals. Keyboardist Rick Wright was the band's own acknowledged "secret weapon" for his backing vocals and occasional lead vocals along with his {{jazz}}-influenced keyboard textures, which became a key component of the band's sound. Nick Mason... Er, is the drummer, and is the band's official archivist. Mason gets very little (though not none at all) in the way of writing credits [[note]] in fact, the only reason he had a credit on “Speak to Me” was because Waters gave it away [[/note]], vocal parts [[note]] he speaks through a ring modulator on "One of These Days," recites an electronically distorted poem on "Signs of Life," and sings on the officially unreleased "The Merry Xmas Song" and "Scream Thy Last Scream" alongside Barrett, and on "Corporal Clegg" alongside Wright and Gilmour [[/note]], or overall notice, but he ironically is the only member to have played on every Floyd record [[note]]Gilmour wasn't there for the first, Wright didn't play on ''Music/TheFinalCut'', and Waters left after that record[[/note]] and according to biographer Nicholas Schaffner, is responsible for many of the band's signature sound effects.

* 1969 - ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'' [[note]] The first disc was recorded live. [[/note]]

* 1967 - "See Emily Play" [[note]] Later included on the US version of ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn''.[[/note]] / "The Scarecrow" [[note]] Otherwise available on both the UK and US versions of ''The Piper at the Gates of Dawn''.[[/note]]

* 1982 - "When the Tigers Broke Free" [[note]] Originally from the film adaptation of ''The Wall'' that same year, later added to reissues of ''The Final Cut'' from 2004 onward. [[/note]] / "Bring the Boys Back Home" [[note]] Otherwise available on ''The Wall''. [[/note]]
* 2022 - "Hey, Hey, Rise Up" [[note]]Recorded using the cover of the Ukrainian patriotic song "Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow" ("Ой у лузі червона калина") by Andriy Khlyvnyuk and released to support humanitarian efforts in UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} during the UsefulNotes/{{Russia}}n invasion of the country that year.[[/note]]

--> ''One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces.''

---> ''Careful... Careful... Careful with that axe, Eugene... '''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH'''''

* PornStache: Syd very briefly wore a [[http://oi68.tinypic.com/21jqe6c.jpg light, soft, fuzzy one]] circa early 1966.

* RefrainFromAssuming: It's called "Brain Damage", not "[[AlbumTitleDrop The Dark Side of the Moon]]". Similarly, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" is not "We Don't Need No Education" and "Learning to Fly" is not "Tongue Tied and Twisted".

''The Dark Side of The Moon'' began what most consider their golden era, and was followed by the albums ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' and ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}''. By the late 1970s, Roger Waters was firmly [[IAmTheBand in full control of the band]], and was calling most of the shots on the band's direction creatively. Next came 1979’s ''Music/TheWall'', their [[TroubledProduction tribulated]] RockOpera classic. However, by that point, the band was beginning to splinter, and Richard Wright—who defined much of Pink Floyd’s sound—was fired during the making of the album.

* 1975 - ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975''

* TheBlank: The interior art of ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' depicted a faceless man in the desert dressed in business attire and hawking Pink Floyd records.

** ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' has "Have a Cigar", an upbeat and comical piece placed after the dark and gloomy "Welcome to the Machine". Both songs are critiques towards the music industry, but the former does so in a more light-hearted manner.

** The entirety of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Parts I-IX) barely surpasses the 26-minute mark, and would be their longest track if it hadn't been split over the ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' album. The album versions have Parts I-V (13:30) and Parts VI-IX (12:31).

** Some songs that failed to reach the ten-minute mark but still qualify include all of the live tracks from ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'' (though the live version of "A Saucerful of Secrets" reaches 12:48) as well as "Grantchester Meadows" (7:27) and "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Parts I-III)" (8:46), "Time" (6:53), "Money" (6:23) and "Us and Them" (7:50) from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', "Welcome to the Machine" (7:31) of ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'', "Comfortably Numb" (6:22) from ''Music/TheWall'', "Sorrow" (8:44) from ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'', and just about everything off of ''Music/TheDivisionBell'', which averages 5-6 minutes, though "High Hopes" reaches 8:32.

** The LP of ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' was shrink wrapped in black plastic, with a sticker on the outside. Between the wrap and the sleeve was a postcard.

** ''Works'' (1983): A cash in by the band's former label Capitol Records on the then-upcoming release of ''Music/TheFinalCut''. It contains a perplexing track-list of pre-''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' material and the compilation rarity "Embryo".
** ''Shine On'' (1992): A box set, the idea of which was that the band's "greatest hits" were actually whole albums. Consisted of ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'', ''Music/{{Meddle}}'', ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'', ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'', ''Music/TheWall'', ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'', and -- for collector's bait -- a CD containing all of the band's 1967-1969 singles. That exclusive CD, ''The Early Singles'' was the only place to find such rarities as "Point Me at the Sky" and "It Would Be So Nice" on CD until the release of ''The Early Years'' box set in 2016 (most of the others can be found on ''Relics'' or the 2007 re-release of ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'').

* ManOnFire: The cover of ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975'' has a picture of two businessmen shaking hands with one of them on fire, which is a visual metaphor for being burned in the music industry. It was recreated in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics when after crossing a tightrope, a British man took the hand of a dummy in a business suit that then caught fire, while the song of the same name was being played below.

** The "radio bridge" between "Have a Cigar" and the title track on ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975''.

** Pretty much the state of mind of the band just before and during the early sessions for ''Music/WishYouWereHere1975''.

''The Dark Side of The Moon'' began what most consider their golden era, and was followed by the albums ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}''. By the late 1970s, Roger Waters was firmly [[IAmTheBand in full control of the band]], and was calling most of the shots on the band's direction creatively. Next came 1979’s ''Music/TheWall'', their [[TroubledProduction tribulated]] RockOpera classic. However, by that point, the band was beginning to splinter, and Richard Wright—who defined much of Pink Floyd’s sound—was fired during the making of the album.

Gilmour and Mason reunited as Pink Floyd in 2022 to record a one-off charity single, "Hey Hey Rise Up", to benefit humanitarian efforts in UsefulNotes/{{Ukraine}} after the Russian invasion. The single samples the Ukrainian folk song "''Oi u luzi chervona kalyna''" ("Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow") as performed by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox, who left his band's American tour to fight for his homeland. Khlyvnyuk posted an Instagram video in which he sang the song a cappella in military fatigues with a rifle over his shoulder while standing outside St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv. When Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law, saw the video, he decided to reunite with Mason to record the song, backed with longtime collaborator Guy Pratt on bass and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards. This is the first time Pink Floyd worked with an outside lead vocalist since Roy Harper sang on [[Music/WishYouWereHere "Have a Cigar"]] in 1975.

* 1975 - ''Music/WishYouWereHere''

* TheBlank: The interior art of ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' depicted a faceless man in the desert dressed in business attire and hawking Pink Floyd records.

** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'': the two halves of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' has "Have a Cigar", an upbeat and comical piece placed after the dark and gloomy "Welcome to the Machine". Both songs are critiques towards the music industry, but the former does so in a more light-hearted manner.

** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'': Disillusionment with the music industry, with some focus on Syd Barrett.

** The entirety of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Parts I-IX) barely surpasses the 26-minute mark, and would be their longest track if it hadn't been split over the ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' album. The album versions have Parts I-V (13:30) and Parts VI-IX (12:31).

** Some songs that failed to reach the ten-minute mark but still qualify include all of the live tracks from ''Music/{{Ummagumma}}'' (though the live version of "A Saucerful of Secrets" reaches 12:48) as well as "Grantchester Meadows" (7:27) and "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Parts I-III)" (8:46), "Time" (6:53), "Money" (6:23) and "Us and Them" (7:50) from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', "Welcome to the Machine" (7:31) of ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', "Comfortably Numb" (6:22) from ''Music/TheWall'', "Sorrow" (8:44) from ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'', and just about everything off of ''Music/TheDivisionBell'', which averages 5-6 minutes, though "High Hopes" reaches 8:32.

** The LP of ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' was shrink wrapped in black plastic, with a sticker on the outside. Between the wrap and the sleeve was a postcard.

** ''Works'' (1983): A cash in by the band's former label Capitol Records on the then-upcoming release of ''Music/TheFinalCut''. It contains a perplexing track-list of pre-''Music/WishYouWereHere'' material and the compilation rarity "Embryo".
** ''Shine On'' (1992): A box set, the idea of which was that the band's "greatest hits" were actually whole albums. Consisted of ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'', ''Music/{{Meddle}}'', ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'', ''Music/TheWall'', ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'', and -- for collector's bait -- a CD containing all of the band's 1967-1969 singles. That exclusive CD, ''The Early Singles'' was the only place to find such rarities as "Point Me at the Sky" and "It Would Be So Nice" on CD until the release of ''The Early Years'' box set in 2016 (most of the others can be found on ''Relics'' or the 2007 re-release of ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'').

* ManOnFire: The cover of ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' has a picture of two businessmen shaking hands with one of them on fire, which is a visual metaphor for being burned in the music industry. It was recreated in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics when after crossing a tightrope, a British man took the hand of a dummy in a business suit that then caught fire, while the song of the same name was being played below.

** The "radio bridge" between "Have a Cigar" and the title track on ''Music/WishYouWereHere''.

** Pretty much the state of mind of the band just before and during the early sessions for ''Music/WishYouWereHere''.

* 2022 - "Hey, Hey, Rise Up" [[note]]Recorded and released to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine during Russia's invasion of the country that year.[[/note]]

* Franks2000InchTV: The band was one of the first to use large screens in their concerts, with a circular screen with films rear-projected onto it. The concerts for ''Music/TheWall'' took this UpToEleven, with a crew constructing a wall and projecting films onto that.

* GreatestHitsAlbum: The band's focus on concept albums has made them difficult to apologize, though that hasn't stopped record companies from trying. They've released several of them:

** ''A Collection of Great Dance Songs'' (1981): Contains only six songs. Infamously, one of them is a rerecorded version of "Money" with David Gilmour playing every instrument except for the saxophone (which is played by Dick Parry, as on the original recording). "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Another Brick in the Wall (Part II)" are represented by edits. It sold decently, but [[CanonDiscontinuity even the band hates it now]].

* GreatestHitsAlbum: Several of them:

* LongestSongGoesFirst: A rarer occurrence than its sister trope just below, but also present.
** ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' begins with the titular track (23:44).
** ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' opens with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)" (13:32).

''The Dark Side of The Moon'' began what most consider their golden era, and was followed by the albums ''Music/WishYouWereHere'' and ''Music/{{Animals}}''. By the late 1970s, Roger Waters was firmly [[IAmTheBand in full control of the band]], and was calling most of the shots on the band's direction creatively. Next came 1979’s ''Music/TheWall'', their [[TroubledProduction tribulated]] RockOpera classic. However, by that point, the band was beginning to splinter, and Richard Wright—who defined much of Pink Floyd’s sound—was fired during the making of the album.

* 1977 - ''Music/{{Animals}}''

* AnimalMotifs: Pink Floyd lore is crawling with critters: ''Music/{{Animals}}'' and its dogs, pigs and sheep, Algie the pig balloon, Lulubelle III the "Atom Heart Mother" cow, the "Several Species of Small Furry Animals...," "Lucifer Sam" the ''Siam Cat'', ''Gerald the Mouse'' from "Bike", etc. Even the band members get compared to animals: Roger Waters the horse, Rick the kitty cat, Nick the rodent (squirrel, chipmunk, beaver), etc.

* ArcSymbol: Pigs, as of ''Music/{{Animals}}''. The album cover features a flying pig, three of the five songs have to do with pigs, and the band included a giant inflatable balloon pig in most every concert afterward.

* AuthorTract: ''Music/TheFinalCut'' is an anti-war, anti-authoritarian protest by Waters. ''Music/{{Animals}}'' and ''Music/TheWall'' were also partially about these subjects, but with a hair more subtlety and metaphor.

** ''Music/{{Animals}}'': the two parts of "Pigs on the Wing".

** ''Music/{{Animals}}'' has both parts of "Pigs on the Wing" at the start and finish. A hopeful love song about the importance of companionship and trust, Waters believed its inclusion on the album was important, saying that without it, ''Music/{{Animals}}'' "would have just been a kind of scream of rage".
*** ''Music/{{Animals}}'' also has an interesting subversion in "Sheep", which starts off with a peaceful, pastoral sound... Until it grows much darker and harsher, and you realise the worst is yet to come on ''Music/{{Animals}}''.

** ''Music/{{Animals}}'': A drastic reworking of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/AnimalFarm'', adapted to then-modern British society.

%%* {{Dystopia}}: ''Music/{{Animals}}'' (which is kinda based on [[Literature/AnimalFarm another dystopia]]) and ''Music/TheWall''.

** "Dogs" (17:04), "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" (11:26), and "Sheep" (10:18) make up nearly all of the ''Music/{{Animals}}'' album. The {{bookends}} of the album are ironically two of the shortest pieces, the two-part "Pigs on the Wing", which when played back-to-back don't even break three minutes.

** ''Shine On'' (1992): A box set, the idea of which was that the band's "greatest hits" were actually whole albums. Consisted of ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets'', ''Music/{{Meddle}}'', ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', ''Music/WishYouWereHere'', ''Music/{{Animals}}'', ''Music/TheWall'', ''Music/AMomentaryLapseOfReason'', and -- for collector's bait -- a CD containing all of the band's 1967-1969 singles. That exclusive CD, ''The Early Singles'' was the only place to find such rarities as "Point Me at the Sky" and "It Would Be So Nice" on CD until the release of ''The Early Years'' box set in 2016 (most of the others can be found on ''Relics'' or the 2007 re-release of ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'').

* LargeHam: From ''Music/{{Animals}}'' onward, Roger took control and most of the songs were performed by him. Usually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6U4XakchT0 with]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqjHHsegE8 extreme]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIJN6WWf3Rg bombast]].

* LeadBassist: Waters most prominently during the period from ''Music/{{Animals}}'' to ''Music/TheFinalCut'', during which he wrote most of the music himself and usually served as the lead vocalist.

* MessyPig: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)". Honorable mention to the [[CueTheFlyingPigs inflatable pigs]] they employed on the album cover image for ''Music/{{Animals}}'' and in concerts thereafter, especially since the cover model broke free from its moorings during shooting and drifted across flight paths, and one of the prop pigs exploded on tour. [[labelnote:NB]] The exploding pig was just supposed to ''burn''. During each performance of "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" on the 1977 ''In the Flesh'' tour, a pig inflatable filled with a mixture of helium and propane would be set aloft from behind the stage and then ignited. It would burn in a similar fashion to the ''Hindenburg'', incinerating the balloon skin as it did. One time, however, for reasons that were never explained, it was filled instead with a mixture of oxygen and acetylene -- basically making a fuel/air explosive. Ignited, it produced a bright yellow flash, a deafening bang (the blast wave knocked over some of the stage crew) and a gentle shower of lightly-scorched balloon skin fragments. For extra points, the venue for that tour date was located near to a veterans' hospital, and the band and crew had been asked specifically to avoid disturbing them with excessive noise.[[/labelnote]]

** "Pigs (Three Different Ones)". "Villains" because they're the ones popularly thought to be manipulating everything bad on the ''Music/{{Animals}}'' album, and "sucks song" because unlike the thinly veiled satire of "Dogs" and "Sheep", "Pigs" pulls out the stops and outright insults the subjects throughout the song.

Pink Floyd were a [[UsefulNotes/{{Britain}} British]] [[PsychedelicRock Psychedelic]] and ProgressiveRock band which formed in 1964. The initial line-up consisted of Music/SydBarrett and Rado “Bob” Klose on guitar, Music/RogerWaters on bass, Richard Wright on keyboards, and Nick Mason on drums. They recorded several songs before Klose left to focus on studies. [[note]]these songs would later be released in 2015 on the EP ''1965: Their First Recordings'' [[/note]] The four-piece then went on to gain a reputation as one of the foremost British Psychedelic bands, releasing two singles and the now-classic LP ''Music/ThePiperAtTheGatesOfDawn'' before Barrett’s mental state, exacerbated by heavy drug use, began to decline significantly. The band then recruited Music/DavidGilmour, a childhood friend of Barrett and Waters, into the band, eventually replacing Barrett during the making of ''Music/ASaucerfulOfSecrets''. While Barrett's state declined to the point where he left the music industry and became a recluse, he would remain a massive influence on the band and haunt the band’s future music.

[[caption-width-right:275:Pink Floyd in January 1968, from the only known photoshoot during the five months that all five members were together. From left to right: Nick Mason, Music/DavidGilmour, Music/RogerWaters, Music/SydBarrett and Richard Wright.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithCows: The cover of ''Music/AtomHeartMother'' is simply a photograph of a cow named Lulubelle III.

Gilmour and Mason reunited as Pink Floyd in 2022 to record a one-off charity single, "Hey Hey Rise Up", to benefit humanitarian efforts in Ukraine after the Russian invasion. The single samples the Ukrainian folk song "''Oi u luzi chervona kalyna''" ("Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow") as performed by Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox, who left his band's American tour to fight for his homeland. Khlyvnyuk posted an Instagram video in which he sang the song a cappella in military fatigues with a rifle over his shoulder while standing outside St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv. When Gilmour, who has a Ukrainian daughter-in-law, saw the video, he decided to reunite with Mason to record the song, backed with longtime collaborator Guy Pratt on bass and Nitin Sawhney on keyboards. This is the first time Pink Floyd worked with an outside lead vocalist since Roy Harper sang on [[Music/WishYouWereHere "Have a Cigar"]] in 1975.

* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: A TruthInTelevision example. Roger, Nick, and Rick met in college, Roger and Syd went to high school together, Roger's mother was one of Syd's teachers in secondary school, and David joined the band after meeting Syd in college.